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Tag: Urbanism

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    The city vs. Big Tech

    by Nabeel Ahmed   Jul 2, 2019   15 min read

    Activists kicked Amazon’s HQ2 out of New York City. They ran Google’s new campus out of Berlin. Now, in Toronto, #BlockSidewalk wants to send Google – and their new “smart city” – packing. The battle against Big Tech is emerging as the new front in the fight for the right to the city.

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    “Pacifying the unruly city”

    by Jessica DeWitt   Feb 27, 2019   4 min read

    Official laws and social norms are wielded as tools of control to preserve urban parks as spaces for middle-class white settlers. Jessica DeWitt reviews On this Patch of Grass: City Parks on Occupied Land by Matt Hern, Selena Couture, Daisy Couture, and Sadie Couture.

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    The theft of the present

    by Emily Leedham   Dec 27, 2018   4 min read

    Winnipeg has been shaped by settler city planners and capitalists who sidelined Indigenous plans for decolonized urban development. Emily Leedham reviews Stolen City: Racial Capitalism and the Making of Winnipeg by Owen Toews.

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    Imagining black vancouver

    by Naomi Moyer   Mar 10, 2014   6 min read

    How does one reclaim city space, even if just in the imagination?

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